bar access to the courts for all types of legal claims, including employment discrimination and sexual harassment claims based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, protections for employees with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act, rights to maternity and medical leaves based on the Family and Medical Leave Act, and entitlements to minimum wages and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

the pro-life movement needs a new strategy

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prosecutor Matt Smid noted that neither woman accepted probation offers that had been offered.

Facebook users who have used the platform longer tend to express emotion less over time.

Now that the justice has been safely installed on the court for life, he has revealed himself to be more akin to melted sorbet: sickly sweet and insubstantial with a tangy finish that induces slight nausea.

A process of confidential deliberations by a committee, held in-camera, to decide tenure or promotion of an academic.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kirby’s family compared him to Bernie Sanders, saying that he would have been delighted to see the character empower such a wide audience.

The Early Africana collection comprises books and periodicals published before 1850 and runs up to 1925.It can be described as covering all rare and important books which are not Africana.It includes the Landau collection of books related to Judaica and the Ernest Oppenheimer collection of books on Portuguese studies.

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If it’s an organisation, then we currently use ‘Dear Sirs’ as that remains the accepted standard

“It was not made from their picture. Even if it were, people have a right to make an artistic drawing of the Chief and Wrigley Field, anything they want. That’s the First Amendment,” Johnson said.

January.

“From what I understand, the true test is whether consumers would be confused as to whether this shirt was sanctioned by the University and I do not think anyone could possibly believe that,” O’Malley said.

Johnson said his client took great care not to use any University trademarks or make his shirts look like a product made or sold by the University.

offering to buy the trademark

What’s more alarming is how Sinclair is currently negotiating to acquire Tribune Media, the conglomerate owning WGN, for $ 3.9 billion.

Sinclair

So it’s only the local stations — or, again, FOX — where fake news is supposedly almost never present.

DPI will be developed on a donated site along the Chicago River, and will operate principally through private donations and partnerships with business and industry

the investment “could be the biggest spark ever to ignite our economic growth engine.”

Does Retraction Watch act on behalf of J.Beall?

The decision by Clarivate Analytics and Medline is puzzling and disappointing and my concern is the suggestion of disrepute that potentially can be associated with contributors to the journal, without any explanation as to the underlying issues or concerns.

The impact factor is not a responsible metric to use to evaluate research. It fails altogether to consider research quality, reproducibility, or transparency

authors for Harrison’s received more than $11 million between 2009 and 2013 from makers of drugs and medical devices — not a penny of which was disclosed to readers.

That case, which is on hold pending a decision in Janus, argues that teachers should have to affirmatively opt into the union, not opt out.

the Center for Education Reform, a school choice advocacy organization.

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, in which the court split 4-4, leaving a lower court's favorable ruling toward unions intact.

In 2016, that system locked Republicans out of a Senate race that was eventually won by Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Ca.).

Candidates needed 60 percent of the vote to win the party’s endorsement, making Feinstein the first incumbent senator in recent memory who will run in June’s primary without official backing.

Black Lives Matter and its allies have placed a “huge underemphasis on black-on-black violence,” said Ladd Everitt, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

support for its sprawling and relatively disorganized initial coding stage might be something I needed to look for specifically

including Republicans for what he termed hypocrisy over concern about deficit spending.

gay couples in Brazoria County won’t be able to just go to any justice of the peace office

the only candidate seeking the GOP nod for the seat in the heavily Democratic 3rd Congressional District.

although a small number of members account for a considerable proportion of comments

Now, remember that they still deserve a fair wage, but also realize that because most employers won't take a chance on them, you'll be able to hire them for less than what you would hire someone without a record.  This will end up saving your company money and because of their increased loyalty, it's unlikely you'll have to find a new employee anytime soon.

whether an individual can do the job.

“Khan immediately charged us, pushing us, throwing punches. We then attempted to defuse the situation and remained calm, but Tariq was uncontrollable and unhinged. I’m certain that Khan knew there was no threat; he just wanted to look for a fight. I wasn’t interested,” Valdez said.

plenty of hostility

“We always aim to be as inclusive as possible and create a safe environment.”

"Illinois receives less federal funds per Medicaid beneficiary than any other state in the U.S.," the IHA said in its fact sheet. The Illinois rate of $3,252 per Medicaid beneficiary ranks last and pales in comparison to neighbors like Missouri ($6,448) and Kentucky ($6,399)

The IHA is a private organization

We remain strong advocates of our safety-net hospitals and will continue to work with the (Illinois Health and Hospital Association) to ensure their viability to support our communities in the years ahead."

Some want the state to take the opposite approach and increase funding for safety-net hospitals.

BLACK was not made aware of the situation until the end of the winter break.

Also, if you have oily skin, you must follow up with a water-based foaming cleanser to really get out all the ickies at once

icky under the skin lumps

sebum

Unfortunately, after submitting those 10 years of payments, some people have found out they don’t actually qualify for forgiveness. Nightmare.

we’ll also see a substantial increase in the standard deduction—from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples filing jointly. (As it stands, both provisions expire after 2025.)

expects the average credit card interest rate to hit 17.15 percent (up from November 2017’s 16.15 percent).

a drug dealer might be wiretapped and his communications with anyone--including journalists--could be caught up.

An explainer put out by Republicans on the U.S. House intelligence committee said that it is illegal to use Section 702 to target the communication of American journalists and added that no such violations have taken place.

investigating three times as many leak investigations as Obama.

The Obama administration used the Espionage Act to go after leakers more than all previous administrations combined

while the NSA can use it only to target foreigners living outside the U.S., data from Americans on the other side of communications with a target--which could include anything from emails and calls, to group chats--is also gathered. Other government agencies, including the CIA and FBI, can then search some of that data, without a warrant, for information about Americans.

Gui was officially released from detention but forced to remain in China and to report regularly to police

complained about losing one point on a writing assignment for having failed to use gender-inclusive language.

sneaked

The level of support for archivists who have been with their current employer for at least 5 years has largely stagnated or decreased.  Those who have been with their employer for less than 5 years are more likely to see increased professional development support (Figure 2).

Prosecutors acknowledged they had no evidence any of the six had personally smashed a window, thrown a rock, or clashed with police, but asked jurors to hold the entire group of marchers criminally responsible for the destructive actions of a handful. They pursued charges that could have conferred maximum sentences of roughly 60 years in prison

"The poor little guy was so far gone we had to put him out of his misery," Gandelman added.

Unlike the Italian mafia or Chinese triads, yakuza are not illegal and each group has its own headquarters, sometimes in full view of police

the phrase “social justice warrior” has traditionally been positive: “All of the examples I’ve seen until quite recently have been lionizing the person.”

tax overhaul they passed last month

If Net Power can provide human-made carbon dioxide for a lower price, oil companies would have no reason to continue using geological sources.

The remaining, pure stream of CO2 can be buried underground.

In the end, the Allam cycle is only slightly more efficient than typical combined-cycle systems. But it has the major added benefit of capturing all potential carbon dioxide emissions essentially for free.

Which sucks because Chrome is a massive resource hog.

When asked this summer by Univision whether he had any regrets about the way he’d conducted himself, Arpaio responded that he had nothing to apologize for and insisted that “the Hispanics” didn’t actually hate him despite his program of racially profiling them.

They’d say they don’t know where their home country is, so let them go there and spend six months, because it might take that long to do paperwork to get them here legally and let them see their home country and see what it's really like

Arpaio suggested he could support some form of legalization of participants in the since discontinued Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that protected illegal immigrants brought in as children from deportation.

widely viewed as the Republicans’ strongest general election candidate.

provocative approach to combatting illegal immigration

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January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly. UGA is the birthplace of public higher education in America.

that’s a good thing,” Munster said

The internet giant will acquire discounter Target

"But I don't hear anybody at the White House or any Republicans, and certainly not in the Senate, calling for Mueller to be fired."

Republican demands to gut the ACA also declined after Congress effectively eliminated the individual mandate by zeroing out the tax penalty in Obamacare as part of the tax bill approved this week.

"This has not been a very bipartisan year," McConnell said. "I hope in the new year, we're going to pivot here and become more cooperative."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants 2018 to be a year of bipartisanship

Republicans argued economic growth spurred by the cuts would offset their cost

without pay since late November

“While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired,” Mr. Baquet said.

The CRA is a relatively new tool that allows Congress to reverse regulatory actions within 60 legislative days of their enactment.

have estimated the state will lose as much as $1 billion in tax revenue

Enactment of the final tax legislation could mean tax cuts for many people in those states, but also big drops in state tax revenue

The change, if enacted, would be expected to decrease the percentage of taxpayers who itemize their tax deductions, such as donations to alumni funds, from about 30 percent of filers to just 5 percent.

The provision limiting the deduction for state and local taxes paid would put pressure on states to constrain their own spending in areas such as higher education, says a report by Moody’s Investors Service, which counts the tax bill as a possible negative for the higher-education sector.

The bill also would not remove the $2,500 deduction for interest paid on student loans.

Another provision would prohibit colleges from using a loss in one unrelated business to offset a gain in a different such business, potentially increasing their overall tax burden. Unrelated businesses are those not directly connected to their academic mission, such as recreation or fitness centers, sports camps, facility rentals, and golf courses.

“seat-license fees” paid to buy tickets to sporting events — a major revenue stream to big-time college-sports programs.

he bill would impose a 21-percent tax on annual compensation in excess of $1 million paid to any of a nonprofit organization’s five highest-paid employees

proposed an exemption from the tax for colleges that decline to accept federal funds, a plan seen as helping a single institution, Michigan’s Hillsdale College, the beneficiary of many conservative donors. The “Hillsdale Carve-Out,” as it came to be known, was rejected in the Senate’s final bill.

A small change in this section states that the tax applies only to “institutions more than 50 percent of the tuition paying students of which are located in the United States.”

laws in many states require their tax rates to change with federal rates, a pattern that could lead to steep state-budget shortfalls as tax revenues decline

Many critics fear such changes would act as disincentives for donations to colleges.

When adopted the entire Downtown district had a total assessed value of $7,560,528.  Today, that value stands at $38, 137,660.

4% yearly raises

confined to professional degree programs

Use commas wherever necessary to prevent possible confusion or misreading.

Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause

the most powerful office on Capitol Hill.

Incidentally, every one of the 265 members who voted for the measure in March were Republicans

Advocates believe a law will make net neutrality more durable. But ISPs are betting they’ll be able to write the bill — because they’ve paid for the opportunity.

(arguably)

adding that the mission will do more than just leave “a flag and footprints on the Moon,” hinting at a possible base and potential mining activities.

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where lawmakers discussed how having the gambling issue on the general election ballot would bring out more black voters and hurt the GOP’s chances of ending Democrats’ 136 years of legislative dominance.

but a federal judge ruled this summer that the state is not required to inform people with convictions who couldn’t vote under the old law that they may now register to vote.

The law bars people with felonies of “moral turpitude” from voting. For decades such crimes were ill defined, but once included things like miscegenation

The mall owner said it would be hit much harder financially by the closures than Starbucks would be if it were forced to keep its stores open until their leases expired

Simon had argued that the closure of Teavana stores could trigger additional store closures in its malls at a time when shopping centers are under pressure from falling foot traffic and widespread retail bankruptcies.

The other universe created by Pierce is the Circle Universe aka The Emelanese Universe. The two universes are completely separate and there is no overlap at all

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Virtually all of our customers are college students. No riff-raff

The odds of arrest were greatest among black men with disabilities, 55 percent of whom were detained by age 28, the study found.

telecom companies, which surged 2.7% to lead all sectors — a reversal of their futility so far in 2017, having dropped 12% year-to-date.

With no male heirs to inherit the fief, the deed was returned to the Crown

Coram married Rispah Cooper and were gifted with the barony of Trebond.

Alanna convinced Daine that Daine should let the animals fight because they would be protecting their home as well.

There is no evidence that any of them did anything illegal.

Ross “recuses himself from any matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels, but has been generally supportive of the administration’s sanctions of Russian and Venezuelan entities,” a spokesman said

Most of the more than 13.4 million documents, which were analyzed by a group of more than 380 journalists in 67 countries, are from Bermudan law firm Appleby

She noted that he had struggled with mental illness and an occasionally violent temper.

he sitting lieutenant governor upset the latter last week when he said he would be willing to sign a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

t was announced that Salman had replaced his half-brother Muqrin with his nephew,  Interior Minister Moahammed Bin Nayef, as crown prince. Salman’s son, Defense Minister Moahammed bin Salman, is now deputy crown prince and second in line for the throne.

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner

‘putintrump

The Air Force expects to have its two Open Skies aircraft outfitted with digital cameras by 2019.

Despite being signed in 1992, the first flight did not occur until 2002

the Russians have been balking at flight requests and imposing flight ranges significantly less than the treaty specify, in addition to using superior digital cameras and getting more out of the spy missions than the Americans are.

In 2014, Russia placed a 500-kilometer (310 mile) limit on flights over Kaliningrad despite treaty language establishing a maximum flight distance of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles).

the eventual American withdrawal from Open Skies. (Despite the widely-accepted perception, Open Skies is not a bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Russia, but a rather large, multilateral treaty between 34 nations.)

Funding for a total of 87 F-35s

a significant increase for facilities restoration and modernization.  Additionally, the proposal increases funding for facilities restoration and modernization by $1.4 billion.

testified that less than 50% of its planes were combat ready, while the Navy and Marine Corps had just over 50% of aircraft necessary for training and operations. In total, only 3 of the Army’s 50 Brigade Combat Teams are ready.

H.R. 2810 authorizes funds to increase the size of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Army Guard and Reserve, Naval and Air Reserve, and Air Guard. In addition, the bill full funds the 2.4% pay raise troops are entitled to under law, and blocks the President’s ability to reduce troop pay while extending special pay and bonuses for service-members. Any reduction of inpatient care for military Medical Treatment facilities locations outside the U.S. is prohibited.

National Security Space

The bill authorizes $613.8 billion in base funding, including a $28.5 billion increase above the President’s budget for essential readiness recovery. Further, the bill authorizes an additional $10 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations fund (OCO) for base requirements, and an additional $64.6 billion in the OCO fund to cover contingency operations. When factoring in $7.5 billion for mandatory defense spending, a total of $695.9 billion is authorized to be appropriated.[1]

Such funding shall be further increased through 2019 for both territories if Puerto Rico takes specified actions to improve its Medicaid program.

“I don’t think I’ve ever in seven years been so misperceived on any issue,” he said.

The man who answered it asked to meet in the parking lot of a bank rather than the address she offered.

he voted for Donald Trump, helping Pacific County go with the Republican presidential candidate for the first time in decades

abortion would be banned “in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detectable” or in situations where doctors intend to move forward “without determining whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat.”

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subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found, using realistic measures of those concepts.

Weber said, “most of the archives were stored on metal shelving in archival quality folders inside damage-resistant archival boxes in a secure building with a sprinkler system.” He called those steps standard practice for archival collections, and later added that they met or exceeded guidelines set by the United Nations and the Library of Congress.

none of us maintain a personal archive; instead, we rely on access to online digital libraries for the final, published version of our research.

published in the ACM Digital Library

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We have acts of white supremecist terrorism whose fatality and injury rates rival that of Islamic terrorism.

Goodwin set Keys' bond at $5 million, meaning he would have to post $500,000 in order to be released.

“This is not editorial censorship and does not affect the content we publish or make accessible elsewhere in the world,” she said.

They accused the company of prioritizing profit over free speech.

The publisher defended its decision, saying that only 1 percent of its content was inaccessible in mainland China.

however due to an existing medical condition the suspect was transported to the hospital for medical evaluation

The legislation has not yet passed both houses. The new policy enables "us to put the principles of this bill into practice," Smith said.

Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Science Committee, said at the press briefing.

already here.

“However, theory, evidence, and simulation studies tell a different and more complicated story.”

highly regarded Brookings Institution

American political ads, and Russian money, rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?”

much of the content was aimed at raising questions over the legitimacy of the election

EPA staffers are sometimes given instructions on changing regulation enforcement and told not to make records of the changes.

Staffers often must surrender their cell phones before they can meet with him, and are often banned from taking notes.

Sales Of Bump Stocks Have Skyrocketed Since The Las Vegas Shooting, As Often Happens After Mass Shootings

The vast majority of U.S. rabbis on the list are Reform or Conservative.

the government withdrew from a deal to create an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall, and the Knesset passed a law allowing non-Orthodox Jews to be barred from state mikvahs, or ritual baths

“We can’t have someone walking around wrongly thinking he’s a Jew, and his family and friends believing it,” he said. “I understand people’s need to be part of the Jewish collective in Israel, but there are rules, and if we don’t obey the rules we undermine halacha.

unwittingly compromised by intermarriage

almost all of them immigrants with Jewish heritage, on lists that prevent them from marrying Jews. The courts argue that they are acting to preserve the coherence of the Jewish people.

the “Great Moderation”

Gates was unceremoniously bounced from the group as speculation over his involvement with Manafort’s overseas adventures increased.

Trump’s gang did scheme with the enemy

whom they were told was bringing them negative information on Clinton as part of a secret Russian government plot to help Trump

often with the knowledge of campaign officials

a fine of up to three times the annual compensation that would have been obtained in the new position may be levied by the EEC.

sycophancy

The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton in a state Trump won by less than 5 points.

where Trump won by less than 10 points, Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke is taking on Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Trump said the difference is that Democrats are “holding up every single nomination” Trump has put forth

When preparing to respond to a FOIA request, employees must provide all responsive communications pertaining to university business to the unit processing the request, regardless of where the document or account is stored

As a result of Executive Order 15-09, those employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interests form must also file a Supplemental Statement of Economic Interests form with the EEC

Fitting a square peg into a round hole - data wrangling experiences from the coalface

catastrophic insurance plans

“Yes, we have been involved and this is a short-term deal because we think ultimately block grants going to the states is going to be the answer,” said Trump, referring to a Republican push to block grant health-care funding individually to states.

Russia has been known to work with North Korea, and Sunday, it bolstered North Korea's cyber infrastructure by routing its data through TransTeleCom.